Fantasy Premier League 21/22
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Thanks for this mate. Guess I might need to go back to Sanchez then as my second option
3 premiums in midfield/attack is really too dangerous... I'm not giving up on TAA for sure.
My current draft is:
Sanchez
TAA Rudiger Tierney Cancelo Livramento
Salah Jota Greenwood Raphinha Doucoure
Lukaku ASM Armstrong
To fit in Ronaldo I either have to downgrade my defense considerably - which I'm very reluctant to do - or downgrade midfield... out of Salah, Lukaku and Ronaldo one has to be out.
My current draft is:
Sanchez
TAA Rudiger Tierney Cancelo Livramento
Salah Jota Greenwood Raphinha Doucoure
Lukaku ASM Armstrong
To fit in Ronaldo I either have to downgrade my defense considerably - which I'm very reluctant to do - or downgrade midfield... out of Salah, Lukaku and Ronaldo one has to be out.
I agree completely, it's far too difficult to try and get all 4 in the one team. It's certainly possible but I just think it constricts you too much and makes you rely too much on them.
I think I probably need to add TAA into mine because at 7.5 he is exceptional value for the points he gets even if it is expensive in defence.
So the biggest challenge now for most of us is what 2 out of Lukaku/Salah/Ronaldo. I've got Lukaku/Ronaldo as of now but I also have pogba and greenwood. So think o may have too many united attackers which is swaying me to go Salah/Lukaku.
Grealish + Matip or TAA + Gray?
Doing my wildcard here.
Doing my wildcard here.
Need to replace Son but am undecided between Torres and Jota.
That’s a tough one. I’d say that’s 50-50. I have TAA and Gray and TAA is staying in for the season but I’m sure Gray will drop off and out for Gallagher or a 4.5 at some stage. Grealish should comfortably get into the top 10 point scoring midfielders. Trent will probably be the #1 point scoring defender… and Matip looks really really solid. Yeah I don’t know!
Id go with TAA + Gray.
Did my wildcard last week and went with Matip instead of TAA.
TAA pulls out a 12 pointer. I havent massively missed out as it allowed me to get Rudiger and Coady in so the money is spread.
However, TAA is basically an all out attacking right winger who also gets clean sheets. And he racks up the bonus points.
Points per million he's one of the best in the game. I'm gonna have to get him in again so i've essentially used the wildcard to book transfers to get him back.
Keep him.
Keep an eye on Bobby F. If he’s out then Jota 100%
Torres looks a bargain but even more of a rotation risk so you’d need a playing bench at least.
Cheers lads. I'm edging towards Gray + TAA because City have two difficult away fixtures after the Southampton game.
If Grealish does well I can always downgrade Shaw and get him in for Jota/Greenwood.
Thinking I’m going to take my first hit of the season lads. DCL for Jiminez. It’s obvously a punt but I prefer playing with 3 strikers and if Bamford really is injured/carrying a bad knock and I don’t take the hit I’ll only have Ronaldo up front and Omobamidele and Duffy starting. The fixtures aren’t that bad for them but I can see Jiminez finally doing the business over all these lovely green fixtures while DCL is out. 8 million injured player is too much to leave on the bench.
I could just wait one GW and use a free transfer to get Jiminez then after watching him for one more week or take the -4 and roll the dice?
I could just wait one GW and use a free transfer to get Jiminez then after watching him for one more week or take the -4 and roll the dice?
Salah/Ronaldo till week 7 and then Salah/Lukaku.
It is an incredible headache I must say to pick 2 of them.
I have a draft with all 3 but it looks like this:
Sanchez
TAA Rudiger Tierney Ayling Livramento
Salah Jota Raphinha Doucoure Gilmour
Ronaldo Lukaku 4.5
Which basically means I am replacing ASM with Ronaldo, at a cost of downgrading Dias to Ayling, Greenwood to Gilmour and losing my bench striker. Makes my bench very week as Livramento is the only viable option to come off it, and also not convinced that Doucoure will get me that many points.
Deleted my original post as saw this after!
But yes, that's the conundrum. Is Lukaku's occasional big hauls (like the weekend) worth most likely losing out on the other switches. Probably not.
just pulled the wildcard trigger
team is now
Steer - Sanchez
Duffy - White - Mitchell - TAA - Manquillo
Bissouma - Gray - Salah - Jota - Gallagher
Lukaku - Ronaldo - Edourard
got .6 still to play with, Manquillo and Steer are just fire and forget, I'll probably never use them, not sure if Greenwood will be playing and United are coming into the toughest part of the season for them.
Midfield looks a bit light now, sitting with 296 points at the moment but not sure on possibly dropping Lukaku for a better midfielder, I've just dropped Bruno for Ronaldo as I'm sure Ronaldo will take pens.
team is now
Steer - Sanchez
Duffy - White - Mitchell - TAA - Manquillo
Bissouma - Gray - Salah - Jota - Gallagher
Lukaku - Ronaldo - Edourard
got .6 still to play with, Manquillo and Steer are just fire and forget, I'll probably never use them, not sure if Greenwood will be playing and United are coming into the toughest part of the season for them.
Midfield looks a bit light now, sitting with 296 points at the moment but not sure on possibly dropping Lukaku for a better midfielder, I've just dropped Bruno for Ronaldo as I'm sure Ronaldo will take pens.
Its not a TERRIBLE side and some weeks, could see big scores but on average, the midfield looks light?
There's going to be a lot of splits coming in, after a start of template teams. 2, 3 or 4 big hitters and which ones?
Picking the right ones at the right times will be huge, very tricky
I'll just focus on fixtures. it's the best way I find. I had my highest ever finish last year following this rule.
It is a decent team overall but the sacrifice is too big. I am basically removing Greenwood, ASM, Armstrong, Dias to get Ronaldo, Ayling, a midfielder who will get me 2 points every week and a striker that will never play. The weekends when I’m not captaining Ronaldo I will just have to be worse off. Greenwood (or another 7.0m midfielder) + Dias is probably worth more than Ronaldo + Ayling most weeks, let alone the bench strength I am adding.
A belated "Happy top 5 million finish" to you
You flatter meA belated "Happy top 5 million finish" to you
Well you probably ended up above me but wheres the fun in saying that eh?
I just want to beat Ben Crellin. And tweet it on his page throughout the summer close season
Where did you end up out of curiosity? I was around 20k but feel it was a missed opportunity because I missed the entire festive fixtures (had a baby at that time).
Yeah blame it on the kid
Seriously? 20k and you stopped playing for how many games? Just left it with no Liverpool assets and went about your life?
To be fair, that's probably WHY I did ok. Without her, I'd overthink it and end up far lowerYeah blame it on the kid
I missed probably about 5 GWs. I also lost 18 points from Son because my internet crashed right before the deadline one week. As I've said many times on this thread... I'm an idiotSeriously? 20k and you stopped playing for how many games? Just left it with no Liverpool assets and went about your life?
I did almost the opposite.
By December, I was about 4.2millionth… then put some time into it and ended up about 76,000. Long way from 20k though.
Currently 6,895 (though on a different email address to last years 76,000th. I’ve got two email addresses and just realised I’ve used last years poor account for this years ‘proper’ team, and last years good account for this years ‘muck about’ team)
Anyone putting Jesus in?
That's a solid climb mate. I bet you finish in the top 20k this year.
Christ no.
Tempted to use Livramento as my fourth defender and push someone like Brandon Williams into that ‘fifth defender that I almost never use’ role. This way I could bolster my midfield and get another regular there.
Smith Rowe at £5.3m is super tempting too.
Smith Rowe at £5.3m is super tempting too.
did you delete your WC team? Could’ve sworn I saw it
Yeah wanted to modify it but deleted by accident.
It is currently:
Sanchez 4.0
TAA Dias Rudiger Tierney Livramento
Salah Jota Greenwood Raphinha Gilmour
Ronaldo ASM Armstrong
But I am super tempted to downgrade my defence and add some quality in midfield. One of my ideas was:
Sanchez 4.0
TAA Shaw Tierney Livramento Williams
Salah Grealish Greenwood Jota Raphinha
Ronaldo ASM 4.5
Now the obvious issue with that it’s virtually 11+1 and you got a Southampton full back as your 1… first team is a proper force though. In weeks where Grealish, Jota or Greenwood are rotated - which will be many - I am going to drop heavily.
While I feel fine with Livramento being my 13th player, to have him as my 12th is overkill.
I actually think Tierney is overrated. If he was playing for a better team and he had less injury problems then he would be a nice option but Arsenal are not reliable at all. Marcal/Semedo and Wolves are a better option especially with their fixtures.
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Sanchez Foster
Cancelo Pinnock TAA Marcal Livramento
Pogba Salah Benrahma Greenwood Gallagher
Lukaku Antonio Dennis
Thoughts guys?
Defence has 2 regular clean sheet players Marcal has a good run of fixtures (and wolves have kept 50% clean sheets) and Pinnock is a solid cheap starter and set piece threat for Brentford. Livramento is a cheap bench option.
Pogba should start week in week out Salah obvious Benrahma a cheap good point collector and Greenwood essentially a striker (also easy to sub out if he won’t play one week) Gallagher is a solid starter for Palace too
Lukaku cheaper than Ronaldo and I can’t justify the price rise on Ronaldo whereas I think Lukaku will be a 12m player soon. Dennis has a favourable run of fixtures and is a temp cheap option until Antonio is back from suspension.
Cancelo Pinnock TAA Marcal Livramento
Pogba Salah Benrahma Greenwood Gallagher
Lukaku Antonio Dennis
Thoughts guys?
Defence has 2 regular clean sheet players Marcal has a good run of fixtures (and wolves have kept 50% clean sheets) and Pinnock is a solid cheap starter and set piece threat for Brentford. Livramento is a cheap bench option.
Pogba should start week in week out Salah obvious Benrahma a cheap good point collector and Greenwood essentially a striker (also easy to sub out if he won’t play one week) Gallagher is a solid starter for Palace too
Lukaku cheaper than Ronaldo and I can’t justify the price rise on Ronaldo whereas I think Lukaku will be a 12m player soon. Dennis has a favourable run of fixtures and is a temp cheap option until Antonio is back from suspension.
You on a wildcard? Fixtures don’t look great this week. Gallagher against Liverpool, Benrahma against United, Livramento against City.
It’s the reason I’m not using my wildcard even though I have issues with Antonio and DCL. I’m not sure my long term wildcard preferences will do well this weekend.
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Yeah I’m on a wild card so very open to suggestions
With a Friday night game, hopefully there's some proper updates on whether Bamford's hamstring has "Pinged" or he was over exaggerating.
Lucky they're playing in this Friday game really, as if it was later in the weekend we might not have heard before the deadline.
Lucky they're playing in this Friday game really, as if it was later in the weekend we might not have heard before the deadline.
I'm sure Bamford is fine. He's just played 90 minutes for Bielsa, of course he'll have muscles pinging. He's done the interview straight after the game, if he'd hurt himself he'd be gettin immediate treatment and someone else would be doing it